Little Me, Signed by Patrick Dennis

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Dennis, Patrick. Little Me, The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, Belle Poitrine. First Edition. 1961. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition—minor fraying to jacket. Photographs by Cris Alexander. Book is signed “Patrick Dennis” in red ink on the title page. Never heard of the lusty, ego-driven actress Belle Poitrine? That is because she exists only in the vivid imagination of Patrick Dennis, the author of Auntie Mame. With the help of a madcap group of friends, Dennis brings her to life in one hundred fifty outrageous photographs in this satirical faux memoir, a racy American cousin of Cecil Beaton’s My Royal Past. Modeled upon Gloria Swanson with a dash of Joan Crawford, Belle takes herself so seriously that she never is in on the joke (but the reader is).